What do you people think of this? I think he's making a big mistake partly because this storm isn't as big a deal as it is south of Massachusetts. I can't figure out whether this is good for him or not. Either way, it's a political calculation and not one of safety or respect for the voters of Massachusetts, IMO.

What do you people think of this? I think he's making a big mistake partly because this storm isn't as big a deal as it is south of Massachusetts. I can't figure out whether this is good for him or not. Either way, it's a political calculation and not one of safety or respect for the voters of Massachusetts, IMO.

Am I missing something?

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I wish you liberals would make up your minds. Is this the storm of the millenium and we should postpone all activity, or is it just a little wondy out and everything should proceed as normal?

I wish you liberals would make up your minds. Is this the storm of the millenium and we should postpone all activity, or is it just a little wondy out and everything should proceed as normal?

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What's confusing is your impulse to define people using over-simplistic terms like "liberal" and "conservative" when the majority of this country defines themselves in more complex terms. For you and tree-hugging hippies, the world is simple. For the rest of us, it's less nlack-and-white.

What's confusing is your impulse to define people using over-simplistic terms like "liberal" and "conservative" when the majority of this country defines themselves in more complex terms. For you and tree-hugging hippies, the world is simple. For the rest of us, it's less nlack-and-white.

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So, like I said, I sure wish you liberals would make up your minds and decide if it's business as usual going forward or if we should push the elections back to July, 2015.

Brown lives in Wrentham....he's probably without power as are many in his area.

a person still has to take care of his stuff

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I don't know what Scott Brown's reasons are...but if this is it, it's a very poor one.

That's the thing about working in the public sector - you kinda belong to the public and your committment to them usually takes precedence over your committment to your family.

I'm pretty sure that every firefighter, EMT, cop and other emergency personnel has personal "stuff" to tend to - families that need evacuating, furniture that needs to be put on blocks, sand bags that need to be filled and stacked, windows that need to be boarded, kids that need to be comforted, spouses that need a hand - but they sure don't get to stay home and take care of it.....nor do they expect to. On the contrary, they know they're going to be gone from home far longer than usual - it goes along with the job - it also goes along with being a governor, mayor, senator, congressman, whatever.

What's confusing is your impulse to define people using over-simplistic terms like "liberal" and "conservative" when the majority of this country defines themselves in more complex terms. For you and tree-hugging hippies, the world is simple. For the rest of us, it's less nlack-and-white.

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There is a group of people who's world is black and white, if your not for us, your against us etc.

So, Mrs, you're on board with voting going on as scheduled next Tuesday. Got'cha! :rocker:

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I'm not sure how the two are even related.

The people voting aren't public employees - they don't owe anyone anything. They've made no promises, they collect no paycheck.

If you'll reread my response, I didn't even offer any commentary on whether he should or should not debate - I merely pointed out that I did not know his reasons, I was not guessing at his reasons, I was just refuting the contention that a person running for public office saying he "having personal storm stuff" to attend to wasn't an accept excuse.

The people voting aren't public employees - they don't owe anyone anything. They've made no promises, they collect no paycheck.

If you'll reread my response, I didn't even offer any commentary on whether he should or should not debate - I merely pointed out that I did not know his reasons, I was not guessing at his reasons, I was just refuting the contention that a person running for public office saying he "having personal storm stuff" to attend to wasn't an accept excuse.

What do you people think of this? I think he's making a big mistake partly because this storm isn't as big a deal as it is south of Massachusetts. I can't figure out whether this is good for him or not. Either way, it's a political calculation and not one of safety or respect for the voters of Massachusetts, IMO.

Am I missing something?

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What a wimp Brown is. He's backing out because he hasn't done well in the debates, and his only hope of winning is through the SuperPacs trying to package him as competent and Warren and incompetent. People will see through him though, and I think he's making a mistake.

What a wimp Brown is. He's backing out because he hasn't done well in the debates, and his only hope of winning is through the SuperPacs trying to package him as competent and Warren and incompetent. People will see through him though, and I think he's making a mistake.